Blog 8: The Saturday Boy - Summary and Plot

Blog 7: The Saturday Boy - Summarry & POV

The point of view in The Saturday Boy is first person. I know this book is first person because it uses "I". It is in Derek's perspective. Derek is one of the main characters. The book is mainly about his life. He talks about his troubles and what happens to him.

Blog 6: The Saturday Boy - Summarry & Genre

Derek's mom made Derek go to Budgie's house because she had somewhere to go. Budgie and Derek had a great time. Budgie even wanted Derek to sleep over. At school Budgie denied them having fun and said he was just pretending. Derek vandalized the school with mean things about Budgie. 

The genre of The Saturday boy is Realistic Fiction. It is Realistic Fiction because the main character goes through many real life difficulties. For example his dad is in the Army and he doesn't get to see him often. The main character lives a normal life as a regular kid would.  The story is not real but I think it is something that it could be based of an actual persons life.

Blog 5: The Saturday Boy - Summarry & Conflict

Derek is an 11 year old boy. Derek for the most part lives a normal life. The biggest difference in Derek's life is that his dad is out at war. He doesn't get to see him often. In school Derek get bothered by this kid named Budgie. Derek is starting to like this new girl that started going to Derek's school. Also in school Derek feels like his teacher picks on him a lot.

The conflict in the story is with this boy named Budgie who keeps bothering Derek and Derek can't stop letting it get to him. Derek keeps getting in trouble because he does things when Budgie gets to him. For example in The Saturday Boy, Derek gets mad and throws a note a Budgie's face when Budgie keeps sending him annoying notes. This is a part where Derek gets in trouble because of Budgie.

Blog 4: One Came Home by Amy Timberlake - Summary and Genre

Once they arrive in Dog Hollow, Billy and Georgie look around and find a clue. The clue leads them them to the Garrow family farm. At the farm they find that a young girl named Darlene Garrow is also missing. She is about the age and has the same color hair as Agatha. She later figures out that this is the girl that was found in Agatha's dress. Agatha sent a letter home saying she was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying natural science.

The genre One Came Home is Historical Fiction. The book is set in the 1800's and is about how a girl won't accept that her sister is dead and goes out to look for her. These are all fictitious events but since they are set in the 1800's that makes it Historical Fiction. The book also has a little bit of mystery in it because of the whole not know if Agatha is really dead. There's a body but know way to prove it so the sister goes out to look for her.

Blog 3: One Came Home by Amy Timberlake - Summary and POV

Georgie has set out to find Agatha. Billy, Agatha's X-Boyfriend is joining Georgie to help find her. She is on her way to Dog Hollow, Wisconsin which is where her sister was going. She is joining a group of pigeoners and plans to retrace her sister steps. On the way she has many flash backs of the days leading up to her sister running away. This gives her motivation to keep going and find her sister. Some thing inside her keeps telling her that her sister is still out there.

One came home is written in first person. It is obvious that it is in first person because it uses "I". The narrator is one of the main characters. Georgie is the narrator which is the sister of the girl who went missing which is Agatha. Georgie explain the events as they are happening. She also explains them in Flashbacks but most as they are happening.

Blog 2: One Came Home by Amy Timberlake - Summary and Conflict

In the small town of Placid, Wisconsin, in 1871, A girl goes missing. Georgie Burkhardt, the sister is known for her habit of speaking her mind plainly. When she goes to far and tells Agatha, something she shouldn't of Agatha runs of with a pack of pigeoners. The pigeoners are trailing the passenger pigeon migration. When the Sheriff finds a body that resembles Agatha it is assumed that it is her. Georgie doesn't believe it and runs off to find her sister.

The conflict in One Came home is that Georgie doesn't believe the fact that her sister, Agatha is dead. After Agatha goes missing the town Sheriff went out looking for her. When he came back with the body of a girl wearing the a dress. This dress was the dress Agatha was wearing when she went missing. Everybody assumed that it was Agatha but not Georgie, she was still in doubt.